Art : Design

Have you always wanted to paint with oil? This guide gives you various instructions you need to master the basics. It shows how to plan a painting, build an image in layers, mix colors, and create the right composition. It helps to practice your skills by painting a variety of subjects, from portraits to still lifes to landscapes. more...

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Art, Community and Environment investigates wide-ranging issues raised by the interaction between art practice, community participation, and the environment, both natural and urban. This volume brings together a distinguished group of contributors from the United Kingdom, Australia, and Finland to examine topics such as urban art, community participation, local empowerment and the problems of ownership. Featuring rich illustrations and informative case studies from around the world, Art, Community and Environment addresses the growing interest in this fascinating dimension of art and education, forming a vital addition to Intellect’s Readings in Art and Design Education series. more...

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The only career series to match the right job with the right personality. Vital information in each book includes: Suggested jobs in a wide range of settings, from the office to the outdoors; A selection of jobs with different levels of educational requirements; Advice on competing in hot job markets; Tips on transforming hobbies into job skills more...

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This title discusses the development of various driving forces for fashion and how and when colour forecasting began to develop. It provides comprehensive details on colour knowledge and terminology and discusses some of the more subjective tools used by forecasters. more...

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This book reviews past practice and theory in critical studies and discusses various trends; some papers keenly advocate a re-conceptualisation of the whole subject area, while others describe aspects of current and past practice which exemplify the 'symbiotic' relationship between practical studio work and critical engagement with visual form. Rod Taylor, who has done much to promote and develop critical studies in the UK, provides us with examples of classroom practice and gives us his more recent thoughts on fundamental issues – 'universal themes' in art – and gives examples of how both primary and secondary schools might develop their teaching of art through attending to themes such as 'identity', 'myth' and 'environments' to help 're-animate the practical curriculum'. Although some of the discussion in this book centres on or arises from the English National curriculum, the issues are more global, and relevant to anyone involved in developing or delivering art curricula in schools. An American perspective is given in papers by George Geahigan and Paul Duncum. Geahigan outlines an approach to teaching about visual form which begins with students' personal responses and is developed through structured instruction. In Duncum’s vision of ‘visual culture art education’ sites such as theme parks and shopping malls are the focus of students' critical attention in schools; Nick Stanley gives a lucid account of just such an enterprise, giving practical examples of ways to engage students with this particular form of visual pleasure. more...

Price: $49.95